Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really means that he wants peace, I will say peace," said the Lithuanian (TIME...
Died. Edward Pringle Lowry, 43, second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City, soldier of fortune in Philippine and World War campaigns, major in the U. S. Army and in the Persian Gendarmery, colonel in the Lithuanian army; of a 40-ft. fall in the patio of the American Club, Mexico City...
Colonel Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian secret political police, lay on his bed at Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
Professor Augustine Valdemaras is not only Lithuania's most enterprising politician but also its most spectacular citizen. As student and later Wartime professor of Greek and Latin in Petrograd he led the agitation in Russia for Lithuanian Independence. Escaping from Russia during the Revolution he appeared as Lithuania's chief delegate at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-20) where he made a reputation for himself by incessantly demanding the Port of Vilna (Poland) for Lithuania. Returning to his homeland, he became Prime Minister, then Dictator in 1926. Not long before he lost his dictatorship an attempt was made to assassinate...
...that eliminated such contenders as Johnny Risko (tough Cleveland baker boy), Jack Delaney (gay Canadian), Tommy Loughran (a light heavyweight champion grown fat) and Phil Scott (English sailor famed for claiming fouls), a match was arranged to decide the heavyweight championship of the world. Jack Sharkey, garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner, crouching awkwardly, came Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, cool, Dempseyesque...